Shanghai Girls
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Shanghai Girls
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Narrated by:
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Janet Song
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By:
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Lisa See
About this listen
Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two sisters from a bourgeois family. Though their personalities are very different - Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid - they are inseparable best friends.
Both are beautiful, modern, and living carefree lives until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away the family's wealth and that in order to repay his debts, he must sell the girls as wives to two 'Gold Mountain' men: Americans.
As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, the two sisters set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the villages of Southern China, in and out of the clutches of brutal soldiers, and even across the ocean, through the humiliation of an anti-Chinese detention centre to a new, married life in Los Angeles' Chinatown. Here they begin a fresh chapter despite the racial discrimination and anti-Communist paranoia because now they have something to strive for: a young, American-born daughter, Joy.
Along the way there are terrible sacrifices, impossible choices, and one devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding novel by Lisa See hold fast to who they are - Shanghai Girls.
©2009 Lisa See (P)2015 Bolinda Publishing Pty LtdCritic Reviews
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- Margaret
- 18-06-2018
Shanghai Girls...
This most excellent Story, Narration, and insight into to Chinese culture and life was amazing.
The Ending ruined it for me sadly.
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- Vivien
- 10-09-2018
Endless difficulties
I loved this book and can't wait to listen to the next on in the series. The lives of theses two women were heart wrenching. They overcame such dreadful circumstances but grew in wisdom and resilience as a result. One can hardly believe the level of racism experienced by the Chinese in America in the 1940s.
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- Deb
- 26-05-2015
Sisters, sisters. Devoted or jealous?
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The love that binds or tears the characters apart is evident from the opening lines. Chinese custom of arranged marriages brings out the most powerful emotions and joy combined with sadness is what bounds this book along until the end.
The reader Janet Song is well cast as her characters come alive in the book.
Lisa See has written a fine book and as it is the first in my library, I am looking forward to reading the. sequel. Perhaps all if her stories too.
I would recommend this book as a good read.
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- EMILIA SANCHEZ
- 22-07-2018
Beautiful story based in Shanghai
Well researched and a beautiful plot about the life's of 2 sisters from Shanghai. loved it 😍
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- Beate Maria Sommer
- 04-04-2023
My favourite so far!
Rich in content, superbly written, well researched and narrated. I was hooked from the beginning!
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- Anonymous User
- 22-05-2024
Family Relationships
I really liked this book. It touched on so much, sister love, cultural aspects of family in China compared to western ways, incredible trauma and the consequences of not dealing with this, immigrants and trying to assimilate yet not loosing one’s roots. There are so many aspects to this book. But most of all it made me realise how trauma can effect everyone so differently and how underlying undesirable with Trauma can lead to du h pain for the rest of your life effecting everything you do. It really also opened my eyes as to how Chinese were treated in post war America. So much sadness. Absolutely loved this book.
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